Wrestling
Wacky Wrestling
A 66 card set made by Topps in Ireland. These cards feature wrestling action photos in which the subjects make humorous statements with comic style speech bubbles. The cards are white bordered with a dented blue photo frame. The set title is situated at either the left or right top corner over a lightning design upon which the card number is indicated. The unusual aspect of this set is that the cards are free of any branding or naming of the subjects depicted on them. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.
CMLL
A second 66-card wrestling set was issued exclusively in Mexico featuring the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre promotion. The cards show wrestling action photos or poses of luchadores. The backs have biographical information in Spanish. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in.
Read more about this topic: 1993 Topps
Famous quotes containing the word wrestling:
“We laugh at him who steps out of his room at the very moment when the sun steps out, and says: “I will the sun to rise”; and at him who cannot stop the wheel, and says: “I will it to roll”; and at him who is taken down in a wrestling match, and says: “I lie here, but I will that I lie here!” And yet, all laughter aside, do we ever do anything other than one of these three things when we use the expression, “I will”?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)